For heartburn · Updated October 2026

A GERD diet food journal for heartburn

Finish eating three hours before you lie down. US guidance says that can ease heartburn at night. Tell Cloche what you ate or take a photo, and the entry keeps the hour along with the estimated fat. Here is one bowl from the demo, logged at 9:15 pm.

Best for: People with heartburn who want the fat and the hour of every meal in one place.
Price: Free on TestFlight. After that, logging stays free and meal readings cost $12.99 a month or $79 a year.

Made for iPhone. First invitations via TestFlight.

Salmon Poke Bowl, the plate this page reads — Salmon Poke Bowl 1 bowl, rice, salmon, veggies, logged at 9:15 pm
Meal time · at 9:15 pm

**18 g**Fat, 51% of 35 g, a sample amount for one meal, not your target

**580 cal**Meal size, 73% of 800 cal, a sample amount for one meal, not your target

Sample reading from Cloche’s nutrient estimates, with reference amounts for this demo. See how the estimates are checked against USDA reference foods.

Which plates come closest to 35 g of fat in one meal?

A fatty meal sits in the stomach longer, and the valve at the top of the stomach stays relaxed while it does. These six carry the most fat in Cloche’s food data, next to the 35 g in one meal the demo compares against. Recipes and portions vary.

Plate	Portion	Estimated fat	Of 35 g in one meal
Steak	8 oz	36 g	103%
Cheeseburger	1 burger	34 g	97%
Chicken Caesar Salad	1 large bowl	30 g	86%
Cheesecake	1 slice	28 g	80%
Pepperoni Pizza	2 slices	28 g	80%
Chicken Burrito	1 burrito	28 g	80%

Estimates from Cloche’s food data, compared with the demo’s 35 g reference for one meal. These amounts are not measurements of your meal.

How long before bed was the last bite?

Lying down on a full stomach is when heartburn happens most. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases puts it at three hours. Eat that long before you lie down and night-time symptoms may ease. The American College of Gastroenterology asks for two hours before bedtime, two to three before lying down.

Cloche keeps the hour on every entry, so a run of late dinners is something you can look back on. The demo above shows a bowl at 9:15 pm.

Both also name the usual foods: chocolate, coffee, mint, tomato, citrus, alcohol, fried and fatty plates. Both say people differ in which ones bother them. Cloche shows what a meal carried and when you ate it. Which of those foods are yours is a conversation with your clinician.

Say what you ate and when. Cloche reads both.

If searching for every ingredient keeps you from logging meals, start with a sentence. Say “poke bowl at nine,” or take a photo. Cloche creates an entry you can review and correct.

See estimated calories, protein, carbs, fat and 26 nutrients. A tracker would add the bowl to a total. Cloche reads it for heartburn as it lands, the fat and the hour together, then answers questions about the week. We check the estimates against USDA reference foods. They remain estimates.

Your doctor may be watching more than one number. Cloche reads the same plate for digestion and blood sugar as well.

To check one meal right now, without the app, try the free heartburn meal checker.

A food list tells you what to avoid. Your journal tells you what you ate.

Freeto download, 4.8 stars

NoBurn and other symptom trackers
Log how you felt and when. They record the symptom, which Cloche does not.

Cloche records the meal instead: what it carried, and how close to bed it landed.
$60 to $80a year, listed

MyFitnessPal, Cronometer
Keep a record of foods and nutrients. Useful when you already have a logging routine that works.

A tracker adds the meal to a total. Cloche reads the same meal for heartburn, the fat and the hour together.
$0often, with insurance

A dietitian
Individual nutrition guidance, with someone who can help you make a plan.

Keep your doctor and dietitian involved. Cloche gives you a record of the meals between visits.
Freeno app, no notebook

Remembering it yourself
You know roughly what you ate. The amounts are the part that slips, and a week later so does the meal.

Cloche keeps the record and reads it for what you are watching, so the week is there when you want it.
Freefood guidance

A food list
A list of the foods most often linked to symptoms, easy to keep at hand.

A list helps you plan. A journal adds a record of the meals you actually ate.
$79a year, or $12.99 a month

Cloche
A sentence or a photo becomes an entry, and it comes back read for what you are watching.

Ask which dinners ran late, and what they carried. Review and correct entries in the same conversation. Read our published accuracy check before relying on the estimates.

Other prices as listed on 6 September 2026; a year figure is the listed monthly price multiplied by 12. App Store ratings from the iTunes lookup on 12 September 2026. Cloche is free on TestFlight while we build, and nothing charges yet. Keep your doctor and your dietitian; Cloche is the part between visits.

An estimate of the meal. Never a promise about tonight.

Cloche describes the food you log and estimates its nutrients. It does not promise that a plate will settle your heartburn, and it never tells you what you have.

Heartburn that wakes you, trouble swallowing, or symptoms that keep coming back belong in a conversation with your clinician. Cloche does not ask about your medication.

Free on TestFlight while we build, then $12.99 a month.

Cloche is on TestFlight by invitation and free while it is. After that, logging stays free and meal readings will be $12.99 a month, or $79 a year. Nothing charges yet.

Join the waitlist for an invitation to describe a meal, review its nutrient estimate and ask when this week’s dinners landed. Your invitation comes from [email protected].